Technical Communication in the Middle Ages

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

M. Wendy Hennequin

Organizer Affiliation

Tennessee State Univ.

Presider Name

M. Wendy Hennequin

Paper Title 1

Medical Maths, or, How I Learned to Love a Graph

Presenter 1 Name

Elise Williams

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Toronto

Paper Title 2

Restoring Continuity: How Readers and Writers Remedied Terminological Flaws in Constantine the African's Translations

Presenter 2 Name

Brian Long

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Pennsylvania

Paper Title 3

Begging Poems as Business Writing: From Chaucer to Hoccleve to the Poet Laureate

Presenter 3 Name

Mary Frances Zambreno

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Elmhurst College

Start Date

14-5-2017 10:30 AM

Session Location

Schneider 1335

Description

This session considers medieval technical communications, its conventions and traditions, and also seeks the connections between medieval and contemporary technical writing.

Wendy Hennequin